[2] The photograph depicts a usual scene at airports, showing several passengers and other people while awaiting to board.
The board represents a different kind of map of the world, where everything is reduced to a list of assorted data, cold and impersonal.
[3] However, a closer inspection of the display panel shows that it presents exclusively the departure times of that day, from the top left to the bottom right edge of the board, as a result of the digital manipulation by the artist.
The Kunstmuseum Basel website states: "Here Gursky has poured the duration of a day into an instantaneous image, creating a paradoxical space-time parallelism.
[5] There are prints of the photograph at the Stedelijk Museum, in Amsterdam, the Kunstmuseum Basel, and at the Museo Jumex, in Mexico City.